• It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.orgEnglish
    1691·
    1 month ago

    America is such a fucking joke it’s no longer funny. I wish we could isolate the rest of the world from your madness but unfortunately we can’t.

    • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      54·
      1 month ago

      Yeah, keeping our shit to ourselves has never really been our strong suit.

      Sorry :(

      • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.orgEnglish
        54·
        1 month ago

        As a Middle Easterner, I genuinely feel sorry for the non maga Americans, but unfortunately that’s your fight to fight.

        Good luck.

        • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          301·
          1 month ago

          And fight we do. I’ve considered myself an activist for almost 30 years now. I thought fighting for marriage equality was gonna be hard. I’m really not looking forward to this.

          • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
            8·
            1 month ago

            The comments are ridiculous.

            People: if ThE cOuNTry sUcks, wHy doN’T aMeRiCAns dO anYthiNG aBOut iT?

            Also people: LoL siLLy aMeRiCAn, AcTiviSm doESn’T wOrk

            We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t. Keep fighting the good fight. You’ve got a good decade on me, but I see you and I’m right there with you. ✊

          • WarmSoda@lemmy.world
            112·
            29 days ago

            [X] Doubt

            Lol at the downvotes. Floo is a known troll. They don’t do shit other than go on the Internet.

          • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
            314·
            1 month ago

            “And fight we do” LOL

            Unleash the devastating power of the Kumbaya warchant on your little stroll to the streets!
            The regime will crumble before your eyes.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            721·
            1 month ago

            Last 30 years of dismantling of civil liberties and it will continue

            But at least gays got to marry ✊

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
          99·
          1 month ago

          That’s 5% max.
          The Blue MAGA are just as bad for the world, they only cry now bcs they’re getting a taste of their own shit domestically.

          • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.orgEnglish
            6·
            1 month ago

            Depending on where you live in the world America has been pretty bad for a pretty long time. But I agree under this new technofascist oligarchy it will become a nightmare

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
              11·
              1 month ago

              For much of the world, it was already a nightmare

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      351·
      1 month ago

      As a Native American this attitude would be a lot more understandable and palatable if America wasn’t colonized…

      • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.orgEnglish
        221·
        1 month ago

        I totally understand your sentiment. Undoubtedly the USA is built on stolen land, much like Israel.

        • blackbrook@mander.xyz
          21·
          30 days ago

          All of history is one people taking over another peoples land. I’m not saying its right, but in virtually any part of the world there is a history of some invader or colonizer coming in and displacing or swallowing up the existing people, probably multiple times, down through prehistory as well.

      • BertramDitore@lemmy.zipEnglish
        141·
        1 month ago

        These immigration raids and terror tactics are terrible on their own, but it’s especially absurd when Native Americans get caught up in it, and it just fully exposes how disingenuous and transparently racist the whole effort is. So I’m sorry that your peoples have to suffer even more because of this racist mindset.

        From a January article:

        ”If you can’t say, ‘we’ve been here for time immemorial,’ then you’re an immigrant. You’re not from here, so who are you to classify our Indigenous people? These lands have been a melting pot for many ethnicities,” Hatathlie [a Native Arizona state Senator] said.

        I heard another more recent example of a car full of Native Americans being pulled over, aggressively questioned, and asked for their papers, but I can’t seem to find it. It’s utterly shameful how we treat people.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          Can the native Americans just kill the leader of the colonizing force?

          • b000rg@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            30 days ago

            The terror inflicted upon Native American peoples has been complete, it seems. AIM is a good example of what happens when you step out of line with the controlled opposition.

  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    1 month ago

    Of course, how would they know if you don’t list any? Oh, that’s right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don’t have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.

    Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren’t getting into the US now.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 month ago

      I feel like I’m going to be responsible for Trump sending ICE to raid the Shady Pines community event planning committee that picks the color schemes for their weekly card games.

    • flandish@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 month ago

      it’s ok. my married name is Erdude but we spell it E’Rdude.

  • shneancy@lemmy.world
    60·
    1 month ago

    lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast

    • Gen_Euffe@sh.itjust.works
      441·
      1 month ago

      The attendance for the next FIFA cup was already looking bad, and I can’t imagine the US government wanting your history of online activity to help it even a bit.

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        241·
        1 month ago

        I can’t wait to see high attendance in Mexico and Canada-hosted matches, with rock bottom attendance in the US. Even US fans travelling domestically, don’t go, especially to the states that are falling into line with Trump.

        Not that it will actually be recognized for what it is. I may put together a bingo card on the ways media spins it.

        • Ushmel@lemmy.world
          17·
          1 month ago

          I’ve been boycotting the world cup for a decade because they can’t stop giving the host status to horrible states

        • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          8·
          1 month ago

          Yeah looking at the attendance for the world club competition is pretty bad.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        51·
        1 month ago

        People should boycott it outright.

        The entire event industry is a front for sex trafficking.

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
        22·
        1 month ago

        The last one was in some barbarian gulf state, now it’s even worse. Fuck FIFA

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 month ago

      It already is… Many people from Europe I know, now cancelled their plans.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    1 month ago

    Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      261·
      1 month ago

      If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.

        • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
          91·
          1 month ago

          look at the news, airhead. They detain tourists and journalists for far less nowadays. Even fucking Senators. What else needs to happen for you to wake up?

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.

      • Highlybaked@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 month ago

        and then they check their palantir database and see your lying and throw you in a south american gulag

      • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
        3·
        1 month ago

        But a super recent account would be suspicious

        You have to do this over a couple years

        • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 month ago

          I can see a black market for decade old “clean” social media accounts to bypass the system lmao

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    34·
    1 month ago

    They want to stay by themselves? That’s fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 month ago

    Sure why not, since my name is Anthony O’Neill. You can find my short form username: Anon.

    What could they find? I bet I’m save.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      141·
      1 month ago

      I’m betting on the opposite problem,

      We show here you’ve been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 month ago

      You can find my short form username: Anon.

      What could they find?

      Yes, what possible community full of people named “Anon” could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    311·
    1 month ago

    in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:

    📈

    note

    in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.

    in all seriousness, renaming someone else’s account and presenting it to CBP as one’s own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.

  • ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf
    27·
    1 month ago

    This is kind of stupid. I don’t even remember social media tags I’ve used. Who would want to go through this shit to get into redneckville?

    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 month ago

      Exactly, they are talking about dozens of names. Who on earth would remember that, let alone want to share it.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      30 days ago

      This was explained to me years ago. They don’t give a fuck about what you said. They want you to lie, in case they need to fuck you up. If for some reason they want to screw you, they’ll look for these uids, and if you hadn’t declared, they’ll slap perjury charges on you.

  • Handmaid@lemmy.zipEnglish
    231·
    30 days ago

    People want to immigrate to the USA still? Bizarre.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      at this point, these companies would make a buck as lost accounts recovery services.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 month ago

    Lol I don’t even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn’t a valid defense I’m never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.

    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      13·
      1 month ago

      Nobody can and that will be use to prove that you lie on the form if they need to find something on you in the future.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    221·
    1 month ago

    hey turns out our tech oligarchs are the ones spying on us and not the chinese, what a twist!

      • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        181·
        1 month ago

        What are the Chinese going to do to you with your data Vs say the tech firm selling your data to insurance companies?

        • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          10·
          1 month ago

          the evil ccp use your data to sell you cheaper commodities, the free west use your data to restrict your rights

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            43·
            1 month ago

            Yeah and both of those are bad. Product dumping kills local businesses, like how the US sending clothes overseas kills domestic textile industries, and processed food aid kills farms needed for self-sufficiency.

            • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              151·
              1 month ago

              lmao as if i could give a shit about petit-bourgeoisie going out of business.

              • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
                14·
                1 month ago

                Yeah, only megacorps and slave labor! Because fuck people owning the means of production, am I right?

                • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                  10·
                  1 month ago

                  Yes, i want highly centralized production owned by the people not highly decentralized production owned by a multitude of petit-bourgeoisie. I want stuff to be abundant for everybody through mass production, not highly constrained by small scale production.

                • pinkapple@lemmy.ml
                  81·
                  1 month ago

                  Small shops aren’t the means of production but the profit extraction still operates through robbing wage slaves of the surplus value they create. The petite bougie bosses you’re trying to shill for are some of the most reactionary elements that go straight for fascism because it promises them protections from international capital (which is defined as a conspiratorial cabal unlike domestic capital hence their almost anti-capitalist rhetoric sometimes). They’re also some of the most cruel because they directly cheat employees that they know and interact with personally.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          25·
          1 month ago

          Better targeted psyops. Same the the CIA does.

          • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            131·
            1 month ago

            I mean, if they are then you should be rooting for them. Your living conditions would skyrocket under Chinese hegemony

                • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
                  13·
                  1 month ago

                  I’d be more surprised if countries like the US, China, and Russia weren’t trying to influence each other.

                • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
                  13·
                  1 month ago

                  It seemed like the best source available from a ten-second Google search while taking a shit, but I can nip down to the local CIA field office and pick up some classified ops docs if you want a primary source, I’m sure they make that info available.

              • vfreire85@lemmy.ml
                61·
                1 month ago

                can you please tell me how exactly chinese psyops will destroy the US? 'cause i can’t really see how anything they could would hurt the world.

                would the chinese, perhaps, campaign for communism in the US? how could that possibly be bad?